ATSF #3460 - DCC & SOUND

ATCHISON TOPEKA & SANTA FE BLUE GOOSE - EARLY 1939 APPEARANCE - PARAGON SOUND & SMOKE

The ATSF 3460 class consisted of six "Super Hudson" 4-6-4 steam locomotives built by Baldwin in 1937. One of those, #3460, was the Santa Fe's only streamlined locomotive. It was painted in a unique light blue and silver paint scheme and gained the name "Blue Goose". The Blue Goose was delivered to Shopton, Iowa in January 1938, and it pulled many of the Santa Fe's famed passenger trains until it was retired and scrapped in 1956.

In our first production run of the Blue Goose, we are offering two models of the early locomotive as it appeared in 1938 and four models of the locomotive as it appeared between 1939 and retirement. The only difference between the two 1938 models is the presence of the road number "3460" on the side of the tender. Each of our four post-1938 model has a unique paint scheme, prototypically accurate for a specific time frame. The most visible detail differences between the early and late Blue Goose versions are the removal of the full skirts and the addition of the scissor smokestack and associated equipment.

All of the models have hand-crafted brass boilers, cabs, and tender bodies, and die cast locomotive and tender chassis. Each model comes with our Paragon4 Sound/DC/DCC sound system with synchronized puffing smoke and integral GoPack capacitors.




Industry-leading Model Features:

ALL-NEW Paragon4 Sound & Control System

Synchronized Puffing Smoke with Chuff Sound

Variable Puffing Smoke Intensity and timing

Integral DCC Decoder with Back EMF for Industry Best Slow Speed Operation in DC and DCC

Precision Drive Mechanism engineered for continuous heavy load towing and smooth slow speed operation

5-Pole Can Motor with Skew Wound Armature

Handcrafted Brass Boiler, Cab, and Tender Body, and Heavy Die Cast Chassis for Increased Tractive Effort

Premium Caliber Painting with Authentic Paint Scheme

Prototypical Light Operation with Separately Controllable Headlight, Numberboard Lights, Cab Light, Tender Deck Light, and Rear Emergency Light

Factory-installed Engineer and Fireman Figures

Prototypically Accurate Models for As-Delivered and also Post-1938 Appearance

Many Separately Applied Details such as Handrails, Grab Irons, Ladders, Piping, Cab Glass, Whistle, Brass Bell, Markers, Numberboards, Air Tanks, and Many Others

Equipped with Rubber Traction Tires for Increased Pulling Power

Recommended Minimum Radius: 18 inches

Accurate Prototypical Sounds for the ATSF Class 3460 Locomotives